Saturday, November 13, 2010

Sticky Window Art

The other night I saw these two great activities while Blog hopping (Time For Play and Mom Tried It) and my brain kind of mashed them both together and we ended up with this sticky window activity (sorry to put 'mashed' and 'brain' in the same sentence but it's an accurate description, trust me).I was pretty sure Bubble would be into it but I didnt anticipate how much. She was still playing with it for almost an hour after I'd lost interest and wandered away, and made me promise about a thousand times (I wish I was exaggerating!) before she went to bed that I wouldn't take it down. I think I'll leave it up until the sticky is gone because there are countless possibilities with this activity.

Cut a large square of clear contact and tape it to your window with the sticky side out.

I put tape in each corner and halfway along each side so it wouldn't move or bunch up when we pulled things off.

Your matchsticks (or whatever you have chosen to work with) will stick to the adhesive and allow you to build pictures. We were able to reposition even the delicate patty pans without tearing them.

We started with a house and sang the Play School song "There's A House With A Wall" while we made each part.

An aeroplane.

Bubble sticking on a pattypan sun.

Next we made a tree and a little bottle lid man.

Bubble decided he was playing soccer and added another lid as his ball.

Fear not, our little matchstick man doesn't have two heads. He is a (soccer playing) cowboy apparently and the second bottletop is his hat :-D.

A windmill.

Bubble announced "it's raining now!" and stuck on lots of little matchstick raindrops. She also discovered she could draw on the contact by etching it with the end of her matchsticks (clever cookie) and drew lots of flowers, a moon, a rocket and a river (they don't show up in the photos very well unfortunately).

When Mr Bubble&Squeak bought the newspaper today we recieved a free suction Woody toy inside which Bubble incorporated into her play scene.

Building Woody a boat (to go on the river she had etched into the contact).

Bubble played with this activity for AGES, we might need a permanent sticky window display.

Woody hanging out at his new pad (looks a bit overwhelmed, doesn't he).

I've seen this done before with mostly paper etc to make art but I LOVE the idea of using coloured match sticks. That makes it into a kind of construction/art project and I think my small boy would adore that. We don't have a window to do it on but I think we'll have a go on the table anyway! thanks for the fab idea!

Hello! I've written a round up of bottle top play and learning ideas and have included this awesome post. I hope that you don't mind me using one picture and your link. If you'd like me to take it out of the post just give me a shout :) The post will be live on Monday 11 February. Keep up the fabulous work :)

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We have two little girls in one little apartment, 'Bubble' who is five and 'Squeak' who is now three. This Blog is a collection of ideas for taking all of the little things and making big opportunities to learn and create. You don't need a big budget or a big space to learn and have fun!
It is also a place to share our ideas as we help our two girls on their learning journey with Autism.
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